The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has said the 2025 WASSCE students did not adequately prepare for their exams.
Kofi Asare linked the massive decline in the 2025 WASSCE results to inadequate preparation and a mismatch between teaching methods.
According to Kofi Asare, the students met questions they weren’t prepared for.
Speaking on Metro TV, the Education Watch Executive Director stated, “It is great to have conversations around the performance of children in examinations. When results go wrong, we discuss them, and where there are gaps, we bring them out.”
“Many of our teachers believe the main contributing reason could have been poor preparation. One headmaster explained to me that the nature of the questions this year was applied, and many students are used to recall-type questions,” he stated.
“When you prepare for ABC, and you meet DF, it means you did not prepare adequately,” he noted.
Kofi Asare also highlighted teacher welfare concerns, “Payment of allowances for extra instructional hours has not been made since last year. It is important that GES prioritises paying teachers for the extra work done because it contributes to motivation,” he emphasised.
He further explained, “You want to first look at the chief examiner’s report and find out what challenges candidates had in answering the questions. WAEC has put out pointers, but they are just headline pointers”.
“We definitely need the detailed chief examiner’s report to understand what could have happened by looking at the text of the paper,” he stressed.
Kofi Asare further revealed that Eduwatch has launched an online survey on teachers to support a data-led review.
He revealed, “We launched an online survey on Sunday and are targeting about a thousand teachers. Early trends are emerging, but they cannot replace the official report”.
“There is some politicisation of the issues, but what matters is that the duty-bearers focus on the real issues and take action to ensure adequate remedies are deployed,” he said.
Meanwhile, wild allegations have been flying around claiming the John Mahama government deliberately failed the 2025 WASSCE students.
Rev. Dr Desmond Boakye-Yiadom, a theologian and educationist, has boldly alleged that the 2025 WASSCE results were manipulated by Ghanaian leaders.
According to the Educationist, the 2025 WASSCE candidates performed well, but the results were massaged before they were released.
He alleged that WAEC had planned to release the 2025 WASSCE results on the 15th of November, but Ghanaian leaders sat down and manipulated the results before releasing them on a Saturday evening, which has never happened before.
Also, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications team member, Benjamin Gyewu-Appiah, commonly known as Benghazi, has levelled shocking allegations against Ato Forson and Haruna Iddrisu.
According to Benghazi, the Finance Minister, Dr Ato Forson, and the Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, deliberately failed WASSCE students.
The NPP’s communication team member boldly alleged that the two failed the 2025 WASSCE candidates due to the ruling government’s No Fees Stress Policy for first-year University students.
Benghazi is quoted by EDHUB, a social media news page, to have said, “Finance Minister Dr Ato Forson and Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, deliberately failed WASSCE students because of the No Fees Stress Policy.”
Speaking in an interview, he alleged, “Ato Forson and Ministry of Education monitored the statistics and realized the students going to university from SHS had quadrupled. So, if they pass all those children, it means government won’t get money to pay for the free fees for first-year students, so they deliberately failed the children”.
“They realised the government cannot pay for the no-fees stress, they cannot fund it,” he added.